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Makerspaces: A Practical Guide for Librarians, Second Edition is an A-Z guidebook jam-packed with resources, advice, and information to help you develop and fund your own makerspace from the ground up. Learn what other libraries are making, building, and doing in their makerspaces and how you can, too. Readers are introduced to makerspace equipment, new technologies, models for planning and assessing projects, and useful case studies that will equip them with the knowledge to implement their own library makerspaces. This expanded second edition features eighteen brand new library makerspace profiles providing advice and inspiration for how to create your own library makerspace, over twenty new images and figures illustrating maker tools and trends as well as library makerspaces in action and new lists of actual grant and funding sources for library makerspaces.
List of contents
CHAPTER 1 The Library as a Creation and Collaboration Space: An Introduction
CHAPTER 2 The Maker Movement and Building Up a Making Mind-Set
CHAPTER 3 An Overview of Makerspace Implementations
CHAPTER 4 What Will Patrons Make in Your Makerspace?
CHAPTER 5 Budgeting for a Makerspace
CHAPTER 6 Resources for Audio, Image, and Video Creation
CHAPTER 7 Resources for Crafts and Artistic Pursuits
CHAPTER 8 Resources for Electronics, Robotics, and Programming
CHAPTER 9 Resources for 3D Printing and Prototyping
CHAPTER 10 Resources for the Unexpected: Lesser-Known Making
CHAPTER 11 Approaches for Developing a Makerspace That Enables Makers
CHAPTER 12 Remaking the Library? Tracking the Present and Future of Making in Libraries
Appendix: Makerspaces in Libraries Survey
About the author
John J. Burke is principal librarian and director of the Gardner-Harvey Library on the Middletown regional campus of Miami University of Ohio. He is former president of the Academic Library Association of Ohio and former chair of the Southwest Ohio Council on Higher Education Library Council.
Ellyssa Kroski is director of information technology at the New York Law Institute as well as an award-winning editor and author of thirty-six books. She is a librarian, an adjunct faculty member at Drexel and San Jose State universities, and an international conference speaker. She was just named the winner of the 2017 Library Hi Tech Award from the American Library Association and the Library Information Technology Association for her long-term contributions in the area of library and information science technology and its application.
Summary
This A-Z guidebook on makerspaces is jam-packed with resources, advice, and information to help you develop and fund your own makerspace from the ground up. Readers are introduced to makerspace equipment, new technologies, models for planning and assessing projects, and useful case studies.
